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Trade Intelligence Architecture

How Kanan Labs builds trade intelligence: source-attributed data, validated-at-source pipelines, and the architecture behind TradeWatch.

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Reviewer-of-record
Definition Trade Intelligence Architecture

Reviewer-of-record

The reviewer-of-record is the named human professional who examines an evidence packet and signs it before anyone relies on it. The signature is structural: the packet carries the reviewer's…

July 22, 20262 min read
Four-state readiness
Definition Trade Intelligence Architecture

Four-state readiness

Four-state readiness is TradeWatch's verdict system: every checked field on a shipment resolves to exactly one of OPEN, BLOCKED, CONDITIONAL or UNCLEAR. The fourth state is the architectural point —…

July 22, 20262 min read
Validated-at-source vs Inferred: Two Ways to Know a Supply Chain
Concept Piece Trade Intelligence Architecture

Validated-at-source vs Inferred: Two Ways to Know a Supply Chain

Supply-chain knowledge comes in two epistemically different kinds. Inferred intelligence reconstructs a chain from the outside — trade statistics, manifests, news, graphs of probabilistic links.…

July 22, 20263 min read